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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Connect \Con*nect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Connected}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Connecting}>.] [L. connectere, -nexum; con- + nectere
     to bind. See {Annex}.]
     1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening;
        to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to
        establish a bond or relation between.
  
              He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all.
                                                    --Pope.
  
              A man must see the connection of each intermediate
              idea with those that it connects before he can use
              it in a syllogism.                    --Locke.
  
     2. To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with
        another person, thing, business, or affair.
  
     {Connecting rod} (Mach.), a rod or bar joined to, and
        connecting, two or more moving parts; esp. a rod
        connecting a crank wrist with a beam, crosshead, piston
        rod, or piston, as in a steam engine.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  connecting
       adj 1: having a connection; "connecting rooms"
       2: syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a
          sentence; "`and' is a copulative conjunction" [syn: {copulative}]

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